Celan’s Influential Atemwende Is Published
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Poetry, Poets
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: Paris
- Date: 1967
Article abstract: Atemwende introduced Paul Celan’s influential notion of the “breath-measure” to poetry and affirmed Celan’s status as one of Europe’s greatest modern lyric poets.
Summary of Event
By 1967 and the release of Atemwende, Paul Celan had been living in Paris for nearly twenty years. Paris offered Celan a neutral ground for writing, one that allowed him to write in German while minimizing the memories of the Holocaust that his Jewish ancestry made particularly agonizing. In Paris, Celan could be close to who he was: a lyric...
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